Petrarch Quotes

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

I think I understand passion. Love is something else.

When love is not madness, it is not love.

Love is the reason you were born.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

I love a bit of passion.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Who loves, raves.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Every culture has its own way of showing passion.

The reality is that passion and emotion go hand in hand.

Without romance, films will be boring. I doubt if people now understand romance, though they may claim it otherwise. I am very romantic in real life.

Reason is not what decides love.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions.

Love is the essence of life; love touches all of our work. Love never leaves us. It clings to us, and we cling to it.

Love is friendship set on fire.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

I'm a very romantic and passionate guy.

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.

I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.

Love is the most ferocious and strongest force on the planet.